Thursday, March 15, 2007

Ouch

I spent the night at River's place last night and this morning, while I was reaching for my bag and getting ready to go, I suddenly felt a weird, painful sensation in my neck. Not exactly like a crunch or a pop, but somewhere in between. I think I pulled something. Now, I can hardly move my neck and I'm in pain! Plus, I'm fairly hung over and exhausted from not sleeping. Riding uptown this morning I had to hold my neck to keep it from hurting when the cabbie road over bumps and I felt nauseous.

Is the universe trying to send me a message that I should not sleep over boys' places? Or, is it more kindly trying to say that it's not a good idea to sleep on their muscular arms for the whole night?

Yeah, who is River? You can't just throw him in like that without an explanation.

Ginger compresses are great for sore necks. Prepare two bowls with ginger tea, one as hot as you can handle and the other one ice cold. Alternate between the two, but only leave the hot one on as long as it's REALLY hot, and the cold one as long as it's ICECOLD. I've tried it several times and it seems to do the trick.

Sisterfriend - A hot bath is a great idea. I'm going to do that later tonight. I think the universe actually thinks it's a good idea if I spend some time with River. He's all about pursuing his Personal Legend, and that's what I need to do.

Just boil water, grate loads of ginger root and make it like tea in a teapot. Make sure it's nice and strong, and then strain the ginger bits out, keep one half really hot and add loads of ice to the other half. Then use two different washcloths, one for the hot "tea" and one for the iced "tea". Just keep alternating and make sure the hot is HOT and the cold is COLD.